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TWENTY·TWO
Special Rules for the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
1. Verbal nominations for the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
shall be made from the floor at a meeting of the Board of Governors called
for this purpose. Consideration for this Award shall be limited to creative
producers whose records reflect a consistent high quality of motion picture
production.
2. When the nominations are completed, a written secret ballot shall
be taken and if one candidate receives a majority vote of the Governors
present, he shall receive the Thalberg Award.
3. If, on the first ballot, no candidate receives a majority vote of the
Governors present, a second ballot shall be distributed, listing the two
candidates who received the highest number of votes on the first ballot.
If a tie for second place occurs on the first ballot, the second ballot shall
list three names.
4. If one of the candidates on the second ballot receives the majority
vote of the Governors present at the meeting, he shall be declared the win­ner
of the Thalberg Award. However, if the second ballot should result in
a tie for first place, a third and final ballot shall be taken on the two names
tied for first place.
5. If no candidate receives the majority vote of the Governors present
on the second or third ballot, no Thalberg Award shall be given that year.
6. No proxies shall be permitted in balloting for the Thalberg Award.
7. No individual shall be eligible to receive the Thalberg Award more
than once.
TWENTY·THREE
Special Rules for the Writing Awards
1. A reminder list of all pictures eligible in each category: Best Screen­play-
based on material from another medium, and Best Story and Screen­play
- written directly for the screen, shall be sent with nominations ballots
to all members of the Academy Writers Branch, who shall vote in the order
of their preference for not more than five writing achievements in each
category.
2. The five writing achievements in each category receiving the highest
number of votes shall become the nominations for final voting for the Writ­ingAwards.
3. In the event that two achievements by a writing team or writer with­out
collaborator shall receive sufficient votes to be nominated in the same
category, only the one which, in the preferential tabulation process, first
receives the required number of votes shall be nominated.
4. Final voting for the Writing Awards shall be restricted to active
Academy members.
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TWENTY·TWO
Special Rules for the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
1. Verbal nominations for the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
shall be made from the floor at a meeting of the Board of Governors called
for this purpose. Consideration for this Award shall be limited to creative
producers whose records reflect a consistent high quality of motion picture
production.
2. When the nominations are completed, a written secret ballot shall
be taken and if one candidate receives a majority vote of the Governors
present, he shall receive the Thalberg Award.
3. If, on the first ballot, no candidate receives a majority vote of the
Governors present, a second ballot shall be distributed, listing the two
candidates who received the highest number of votes on the first ballot.
If a tie for second place occurs on the first ballot, the second ballot shall
list three names.
4. If one of the candidates on the second ballot receives the majority
vote of the Governors present at the meeting, he shall be declared the win­ner
of the Thalberg Award. However, if the second ballot should result in
a tie for first place, a third and final ballot shall be taken on the two names
tied for first place.
5. If no candidate receives the majority vote of the Governors present
on the second or third ballot, no Thalberg Award shall be given that year.
6. No proxies shall be permitted in balloting for the Thalberg Award.
7. No individual shall be eligible to receive the Thalberg Award more
than once.
TWENTY·THREE
Special Rules for the Writing Awards
1. A reminder list of all pictures eligible in each category: Best Screen­play-
based on material from another medium, and Best Story and Screen­play
- written directly for the screen, shall be sent with nominations ballots
to all members of the Academy Writers Branch, who shall vote in the order
of their preference for not more than five writing achievements in each
category.
2. The five writing achievements in each category receiving the highest
number of votes shall become the nominations for final voting for the Writ­ingAwards.
3. In the event that two achievements by a writing team or writer with­out
collaborator shall receive sufficient votes to be nominated in the same
category, only the one which, in the preferential tabulation process, first
receives the required number of votes shall be nominated.
4. Final voting for the Writing Awards shall be restricted to active
Academy members.
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